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EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate has picked up rights to the thriller Prey, with John Glenn and Alex Davidson co-writing the script.  Glenn will produce with Mandeville's Todd Lieberman and David Hoberman, with Alex Young executive producing In the film, a man is dropped off, naked, at the Dodger Stadium parking lot with a $2…

Participant has boarded Lionsgate and Mandeville Films’ White Bird: A Wonder Story, the companion film to 2017’s hit $306M-plus grossing YA feature Wonder, as EP and co-financier. As we first told you, Marc Forster is directing White Bird, which is currently in production. The screenplay adaptation of R.J. Palacio's…

In a competitive situation, ABC Signature has optioned Rebekah Taussig's memoir Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body. It will be developed for television by ABC Signature and studio-based Mandeville Films and director-producer Randall Einhorn’s Sad Unicorn banner. Taussig will co-write the…

World War Z filmmaker Marc Forster has boarded Lionsgate’s feature adaptation of White Bird: A Wonder Story, a creative graphic novel drawn from the universe of the 2017 Lionsgate-Mandeville Films hit pic Wonder which grossed $306M WW. Forster returns to the studio where he directed the Oscar-winning Monster’s Ball 19…

EXCLUSIVE: Azia Squire has been tapped to adapt B.B. Alston’s unpublished Balzer+Bray novel Amari and the Night Brothers at Universal Pictures, a feature project that Black-ish actress Marsai Martin will star in and produce. Plot details are being kept under wraps, but the project also drew the attention of Don…

EXCLUSIVE:  We hear that Lionsgate has closed motion picture rights to produce a hybrid live-action movie based on Ubisoft's Rabbids video game franchise. Mandeville Films’ Todd Lieberman and David Hoberman, who were behind such mega hits as Beauty and the Beast and Wonder are producing with Jason Altman and Margaret…

EXCLUSIVE: Universal is developing the Adib Khorram 2018 Penguin Books YA novel Darius the Great is Not Okay.  Kevin Hamedani and Travis Betz will adapt for Todd Lieberman and David Hoberman’s Mandeville Films which is producing. The novel follows half-Persian Darius Kellner, a fanboy who knows how to speak Klingon…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has learned that Universal Pictures and Mandeville Films are in development on Treasure Island, a new feature take inspired by the 1883 Robert Louis Stevenson novel which two-time Oscar nominated How to Train Your Dragon filmmaker Dean DeBlois will direct. Beauty and the Beast scribe Evan…

Following the critical and commercial success of the Julia Roberts, Owen Wilson, and Jacob Tremblay-starring film, Wonder, Lionsgate is set to develop NYT best selling author R.J. Palacio’s graphic novel White Bird: A Wonder Story into a feature. Wonder producers David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman of Mandeville Films…

EXCLUSIVE: Ryan Reynolds has tied the knot to star in and produce action-comedy Shotgun Wedding for Lionsgate, Mandeville Films and his outfit Maximum Effort with Pitch Perfect helmer Jason Moore on board to direct. The movie reunites Deadpool star Reynolds with Lionsgate after the two partnered on hit action-comedy Th…

UPDATED, 11:15 AM: Wonder, the little film that could, has just crossed $300M and that’s before it heads to Japan. So far, the film has grossed $132.4M domestically and $167.7M internationally through yesterday for a worldwide total of $300.1 million. The highest grossing territory outside of the states is China with…

Lionsgate's family pic, Wonder, has crossed $200M globally. After debuting domestically in November with a strong $27M against Justice League, and rising to $124.3M at home so far, it has $78.2M at the international box office for a total $202.5M worldwide. Overseas, it's currently playing in 65 markets with majors to…